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Dark Room

14 points by ashishbharthi 17y ago

ambiate 17y ago
I read one of pg's essays not too long which had a section along the lines of, "too much in your view = too much to process." I started putting this idea into practice with a purging of nonsense in my work area and noticed a slight improvement. I've been looking for something like this for a while. This app just needs to have a preference to disable alt + tab
- TomOfTTB 17y ago
  Google has essentially made a religion out of this theory. I'm not sure how much I buy into it at this point but I have to admit the minimalist approach is a big part of why I find the Chrome browser so enjoyable to use.
chaosmachine 17y ago
There's also q10, which is basically the same thing, I think. http://www.baara.com/q10/ http://www.baara.com/q10/
- cnvogel 17y ago
  But, most important, Q10 has sound. click, click, click, click, katching
- ukdm 17y ago
  Q10 seems to be a much more lightweight and portable solution. I am liking it already.
Vitaly 17y ago
Well, Command-Shift-F fullscreen mode in mvim (Mac's vim gui, i'm not sure if it is also supported in gvim variants on X11) gives you the same if used with an appropriate colorscheme (I use vividchalk)
- plaes 17y ago
  Unfortunately gvim in X11 doesn't support fullscreen by itself. (At least I haven't found a way to do it.) But fortunately there are external programs that allow doing it. Right now I'm using devilspie ( http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie ) to set gvim as fullscreen when it is started. Here's the script: ( if ( and ( is ( window_name ) "Vim" ) ) ( begin ( fullscreen )) )
freakwit 17y ago
Sometimes, I will use vim in a virtual terminal instead of my normal ubuntu desktop. The switch back and forth takes more time than a standard alt+tab which seems to trigger something in my brain to stick with it longer than using vim `normally'.
wglb 17y ago
Too late for me, as who wants to learn a bunch of obscure keyboard shortcuts? has already happened for me, and as a result, the keyboard shortcuts shown here are obscure to me as a result. I approach this with emacs by turning off the menu bar and the icon bar. I am not fond of the green on black.
kylemathews 17y ago
There's also pyroom -- http://pyroom.org/ http://pyroom.org/ It looks like it's Linux only at the moment (where I use it fairly often) but they say they're working on a windows install.

14 points by ashishbharthi 17y ago

I read one of pg's essays not too long which had a section along the lines of, "too much in your view = too much to process." I started putting this idea into practice with a purging of nonsense in my work area and noticed a slight improvement. I've been looking for something like this for a while. This app just needs to have a preference to disable alt + tab

TomOfTTB 17y ago
Google has essentially made a religion out of this theory. I'm not sure how much I buy into it at this point but I have to admit the minimalist approach is a big part of why I find the Chrome browser so enjoyable to use.

chaosmachine 17y ago

There's also q10, which is basically the same thing, I think. http://www.baara.com/q10/ http://www.baara.com/q10/

cnvogel 17y ago
But, most important, Q10 has sound. click, click, click, click, katching
ukdm 17y ago
Q10 seems to be a much more lightweight and portable solution. I am liking it already.

Vitaly 17y ago

Well, Command-Shift-F fullscreen mode in mvim (Mac's vim gui, i'm not sure if it is also supported in gvim variants on X11) gives you the same if used with an appropriate colorscheme (I use vividchalk)

plaes 17y ago
Unfortunately gvim in X11 doesn't support fullscreen by itself. (At least I haven't found a way to do it.) But fortunately there are external programs that allow doing it. Right now I'm using devilspie ( http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie ) to set gvim as fullscreen when it is started. Here's the script: ( if ( and ( is ( window_name ) "Vim" ) ) ( begin ( fullscreen )) )

freakwit 17y ago

Sometimes, I will use vim in a virtual terminal instead of my normal ubuntu desktop. The switch back and forth takes more time than a standard alt+tab which seems to trigger something in my brain to stick with it longer than using vim `normally'.

wglb 17y ago

Too late for me, as who wants to learn a bunch of obscure keyboard shortcuts? has already happened for me, and as a result, the keyboard shortcuts shown here are obscure to me as a result. I approach this with emacs by turning off the menu bar and the icon bar. I am not fond of the green on black.

kylemathews 17y ago

There's also pyroom -- http://pyroom.org/ http://pyroom.org/ It looks like it's Linux only at the moment (where I use it fairly often) but they say they're working on a windows install.